Venice, Italy
The Mad Colored Houses of Burano
This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.
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Venice, Italy
This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.
Venice, Italy
An island on the Venetian Lagoon hosts this stone chair that has nothing to do with the King of the Huns.
Venice, Italy
The small peaceful island off the Venice tourist circuit is where the city began more than 1,500 years ago.
Venice, Italy
Stare out over the lagoon and beyond from this 10th-century campanile on the island where the city of Venice began.
Lübeck, Germany
Dancing skeletal figures pay homage to a medieval mural destroyed during World War II.
Vaasa, Finland
Relocated graffiti- and street-art exhibition space in a former national railway warehouse.
Raahe, Finland
More than 200 eclectic sculptures surround the artist's home.
Hailuoto, Finland
This modernist island church incorporates the Finnish nature into its worship practices.
Oulu, Finland
An incredibly durable timepiece glows beneath shoppers' feet.
Suomussalmi, Finland
Menacing or in memoriam, the Silent People and their meaning are left to interpretation.
Parikkala, Finland
Collection of nearly 500 concrete figures sculpted by the late Veijo Rönkkönen.
Savonlinna, Finland
This island castle now hosts a world-famous opera festival.
Imatra, Finland
These Finnish rapids have been attracting tourists for over a hundred years and are now released with the push of a button.
Virolahti, Finland
Fortifications built for a Soviet invasion that never came now sit abandoned in a losing battle against nature.
Helsinki, Finland
The last surviving submarine from a strange chapter of Finnish history.
Helsinki, Finland
This church also serves as a lighthouse complete with a beacon.
Helsinki, Finland
This irregularly shaped sea fortress has defended not one but three different sovereign states.
Helsinki, Finland
On a small island, a replica of a Finnish village from the Iron Age.
Lübeck, Germany
The small alleys in Lübeck's Old Town are a result of medieval urban sprawl.
Lübeck, Germany
A statue honors the local legend that the devil helped build St. Mary's church after being tricked into thinking it was going to be a wine bar.
Lübeck, Germany
The bells remain in a shattered heap exactly as they fell when the church was bombed in World War II.
Volendam, Netherlands
Mosaics created from 11 million cigar bands.
Volendam, Netherlands
The portrait of a man from Japan who sent weekly letters to a Dutch hotel he never visited.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The world’s largest street art museum.